"We didn't start the fire ... it was always burning since the world's been turning ..." [Billy Joel 1989]. Is SOA the "Same Old Architecture?" or is it "Simply Over Ambitious?" Let's apply SOA's arsenal:: XML, BPM, Services, SOAP, Web Services - to the real world and find out. Let's put out some fires.

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Future possibilities explored at IEEE SCC 2008

Well as with any other conference, the excitement slowly goes down as number of days pass by.  There were fewer participants for Day 3 and Day 4, with hardly authors seen around for presenting their work.  Keynotes in my view should throw some light on to new research directions, trends and innovation opportunities.  Keynote themes at SCC 2008 on three days also were pointing a direction.

Adaptive service based for developing future software, game changing cloud computing and its complementaries with SOA were the themes that were discussed during the keynotes.   This has shown that research community and academia is excited about the cloud computing.  Industry has already seen success of cloud computing with most notable one being Amazon’s EC2 and S3.  The debate was how research community would need to fuel innovation for cloud computing. The explosive growth in social networking, mobile platforms and collaboration platforms will see more and more innovations in near future.

Clearly as it could be noticed based on all the papers presented, the service computing research community is heading towards developing platforms for large scale development.  By large scale development what I meant was development that not localized but distributed across many locations.

Also, I feel worth mentioning here is an intresting poster stuck near the registration desk, it talked about a mashup application.  An application which could help in monitoring and possibly predicting the effect of wild fire.  It took the information provided by google earth API's and weather information service. It is so interesting to see so many valuable innovation and possiblities through mashups.

Posted by Naveen Kulkarni on July 12, 2008 10:40 AM |

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